Blackberry Corporation

Research in Motion Corporation

M-stack Limited

Andrew John Farnsworth

Gideon Roberts

Mark Dennis Norton

Nicola M Funnell

Giri Narayana Reddy

David Philip Hole

Gordon Peter Young

Gjalt Gerrit De Jong

Raghavendra Magadi Rangaiah

Ozgur Ekici

Tomasz Henryk Mach

Muhammad Khaledul Islam

David W Pedlar

Vaibhav Singh

Supratim Chakraborty

Takashi Suzuki

Robert J Harrison

Anup Vijay

Richard Charles Burbidge

Ajay Singh

Richard George

Craig Swann

Anton Pavlovich

Sukhdev Saini

Gao Yan

Ajit Singh Boley

Ximing Zhu

Raghavendra M Rangaiah

Richard John George

Rene Faurie

Noushad Naqvi

Maiyuran Wijayanathan

David Noel Vanden Heuvel

Dinesh Kumar Arora

Steven Michael Hanov

Syed Hussain Ali

Ayman Ahmed Mahmoud Abdel-Samad

Eniko Sokondar

Mohamed Galal El-Din Ebrahim

Patrik Olsson

Raghavendra Rangaiah

Gjalt De Jong

Nicola Nicki Wilson

Chin Ying Cheung

Chin Ying Nelson Cheung

Venkateswarlu Katepalli

Gary James Eggerton

Nicola Wilson

Gideon Edmund Roberts

In some examples, a first wireless access network entity receives, from a second wireless access network entity, a system information configuration of the second wireless access network entity, and identifies, based on the received system information configuration, common system information between the first and second wireless access network entities. The first wireless access network entity sends, to a user equipment (UE), an indicator extending an area scope of the common system information.

Communicating an indicator extending an area scope of system information

A user equipment (UE) receives an indicator that extends an area scope of system information received by the UE, the system information transmitted by a wireless access network node.

A method and apparatus for a device in which when an attempt on a frequency to camp on a cell fails, there is an indication stored in relation to the frequency of the failed camping attempt.

Automatic tracking of mobile device camping failure to an access point

A method and device for transmitting a sequence of messages from a handheld telecommunications device to a telecommunications network is described, the sequence of messages comprising a plurality of messages to be transmitted at specified times. The method comprises transmitting a message of the sequence of messages and turning off at least one of the transmitter and receiver of the device after transmission of at least one of the messages in the sequence of messages. The method has particular application to messages that terminate a radio connection, such as RRC Connection Release Complete messages in a UMTS system.

Apparatus and method for transmitting messages in mobile telecommunications system user equipment

Methods and apparatus to audibly provide messages in a mobile device at described. An example method includes detecting a radio link failure condition, in response to detecting the radio link failure condition, sending a cell update message to a medium access control of the user equipment, detecting that a timer associated with a radio access bearer has expired before receiving confirmation from the medium access control of transmission of the cell update message to a network, and in response to detecting that the timer associated with the radio access bearer has expired and sending the cell update message to the medium access control, maintaining the radio access bearer associated with the timer.

Methods and apparatus for mobile device recovery following radio link failure

The present disclosure provides for methods and systems for indicating a frequency for reporting a GERAN CGI. These include the relaxation of the single measurement object per frequency principle; an indication of ARFCN for CGI reading; measurement interruption avoidance; implicit indications of ARFCN for CGI reading; the use of a different object than a measurement object to report the cell for which to report the CGI; the use of a measurement configuration report to indicate the CGI cell or the selection of an ARFCN using to find rules at the UE.

Method and system for indicating frequency for reporting a GERAN CGI

A method and apparatus for handling congestion in a mobile telecommunications system is described, the method comprising, at the user equipment monitoring messages from a cell for an indication of congestion and handing the congestion in a battery and signaling efficient manner. By one approach this comprises sending a first message to a cell, receiving a rejection (or failing to receive an acknowledgement of the message) within a period and in response, monitoring messages from the cell for an indication of congestion.

Method and apparatus in mobile telecommunications system user equipment for managing congestion within the mobile telecommunications system

A method at a user equipment for establishing a circuit switched call, the user equipment being in a Cell Forward Access CHannel (CELL_FACH) state, a Cell Paging CHannel (CELL_PCH) state or a UTRAN Registration Area Paging CHannel (URA_PCH) state, the method receiving an indication that a circuit switched call is pending; sending to a network element a message to facilitate the user equipment to transition to a Cell Dedicated CHannel (CELL_DCH) state, the message being one of a cell update message having a traffic volume indicator information element indicating that pending uplink data exceeds a threshold or an RRCConnectionRequest message; and establishing the circuit switched call.

Method and system for voice call setup from a PCH or FACH state

A user equipment is provided comprising: 1) transceiver circuitry configured to operate in cells associated with at least one radio access technology (RAT) network; and 2) a controller configured to perform neighbor cell searches. The controller is further configured to determine when the user equipment enters a first RRC state from a second RRC state. In response to a determination that the user equipment entered a first RRC state from a second RRC state, the controller delays performing a cell search until the controller determines that the user equipment has received complete system information for a serving cell.

Apparatus and method for high priority search on RRC state change

A user equipment capable of performing reselection in a wireless network is disclosed. The user equipment comprises: 1) a controller configured to perform reselection between cells according to a priority-based reselection (PBR) algorithm using priority information; 2) transceiver circuitry configured to operate in cells using at least one radio access technology and to receive incoming messages including the priority information; and 3) a memory configured to store the received priority information. The controller is further configured to compare the received priority information with defined limits stored in the memory and to determine if the received priority information exceeds the defined limits.

Apparatus and method for processing priority information in a wireless device

A computer-implemented method entails steps of receiving user input signifying that an application on a computing device is to be locked and, in response to the user input, locking a user within the application to thereby permit the user to utilize functionalities of the application without exiting from the application or switching to another application on the computing device.

Method of locking an application on a computing device

Methods, device and apparatus for use in a cellular network are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises: receiving, via the cellular network, a bias parameter of a neighbor cell; and determining based on the bias parameter whether or not to perform at least one mobility measurement.

Measurements in a communication network

A wireless communications device, and a method of operating a wireless communications device, the device operative to receive broadcast system information from a network, the device being arranged to: receive first broadcast system information, said first broadcast system information defining scheduling information for a plurality of items of further broadcast system information; define a subset containing a plurality of items of further broadcast system information; receive an item of further broadcast system information relating to whether transmit diversity is in use; when it is determined that the device has received further broadcast system information relating to whether transmit diversity is in use, wait until one of the following conditions has been met before implementing on the device any changes in transmit diversity as defined by the further broadcast system information relating to whether transmit diversity is in use: i) the device having received all members of the subset of further broadcast system information; or ii) the quality of a signal received by the device being determined to be below a threshold.

Apparatus and method for handling broadcast system information in telecommunications system user equipment

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Bromsgrove, United Kingdom

Andrew John Farnsworth